Ortho and Halloween

During the Halloween event Ortho comes close to firing his technomantic cannon at campus visitors out of frustration with their refusal to follow the rules (and after they poke him and shove food into his oral cavity).

The other Ignihyde students defend him, and Idia thanks him for looking out for the dorm.

When they finally get their revenge on the Magicam Monsters Ortho observes, “It was super funny the way their faces contorted when they were about to cry.”

During Spectral Soiree we get a hint of how much Ortho dislikes ghosts, (“It might be more efficient to simply obliterate any ghosts we come across…they’re ghosts, right? There’s no need to go easy on them!”), and in a voice line he says that he gets mocked by the ghosts at the school.

(It is possible that Ortho gets bullied by more than just the ghosts. When Idia asks if people bad-mouth him often Ortho responds, “That kind of voice data is so worthless, I don’t bother saving it,” which may be the Ortho equivalent of ‘yes, but I ignore it.’)

Ortho is not a very big fan of Halloween, either (perhaps because of the sudden influx of ghosts), and it seems he was tempted to not attend the Spectral Soiree Halloween Party specifically because he is “not a fan of ghosts in general.”

We see him interacting pleasantly with campus ghosts in a vignette, however, so Ortho may be able to put aside his dislike of ghosts when there is a benefit to him (he needed the laundry ghosts to leave so that he could make preparations for revenge against bullies).

During the Spectral Soiree event Ortho is in a group with Riddle and Ruggie.

He and Ruggie bond over shared excitement at the treasure-hunt-like adventure that they are experiencing, with Ortho expressing concern over Riddle’s lack of familiarity with almost any form of entertainment media. (“You know it’s bad when Ortho—who I remind you is a robot—is worried about your emotional growth.”)

Ortho invites both Riddle and Ruggie to an escape room after they get back to campus.

At the end of the Halloween event Ortho declares that his opinion on Halloween has changed and now he really likes it, while with the conclusion of the Spectral Soiree event he says, “I’ll have to save my memories of this year’s Halloween in a folder with the highest possible security.”